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Stories for week of September 08, 2019

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Sep. 13

 German plans for binding Synod violate Church law, Vatican says
 Vatican signs legal accord with Angola
 Pope explains gift of St. Peter’s relics to Orthodox Patriarch
 West Virginia diocese fights false-advertising complaint
 Details published of Bishop Bransfield’s spectacular spending
 No charges against doctor in Dutch involuntary-euthanasia case
 Iraqi Christian library, vandalized by Islamic State, reopens and rebuilds
 China’s religion policy aims to increase state control
 Pope to visit Thailand, Japan in November
 Priests in Tasmania to face up to 21 years in jail if they fail to report abuse revealed in Confession
 US Senate passes legislation to hold China accountable for rights abuses in Xinjiang
 Papua New Guinea bishop arrested for ‘defamation’ of police
 Defend the Christian presence in Nineveh, Cardinal Sako urges
 Wyoming diocese says it’s substantiated 3 more allegations against former bishop
 Timor-Leste’s 1st archbishop aims to unite faithful
 Diocese of Rochester files for bankruptcy
 Synod’s special secretaries discusses ‘why the Amazon merits a synod’
 Vatican UN nuncio laments ‘cycle of violence’ surrounding 9/11 attacks
 Be faithful to your roots and tradition, Pope tells Discalced Augustinians
 Serbia’s president meets with Pope
 Pope endorses event to create a global educational village

Released Thursday, Sep. 12

 Cardinal Burke, Bishop Schneider call for prayer crusade, cite dangers of Amazon Synod
 Bishops must be close to people, Pope says
 Congressman calls on Bishop Malone to resign
 ‘Wars and walls’ do not serve humanity’s good, Pope emphasizes
 2 Planned Parenthood clinics close in Ohio
 South African prelate decries violence against women
 Cardinal Turkson denounces xenophobic violence in South Africa
 Vatican participates in World Water Week discussions
 US evangelical Protestant delegation meets Saudi crown prince
 China intensifies control over ‘official’ religions
 500 Hindu radicals destroy Jesuit college in Jharkand
 In Lahore, a Christian dies of torture in police custody
 Bishops promote reconciliation between Korea, Japan
 Illinois bishop: God will not intervene to end the crisis of gun violence without our help
 Legal dispute in Poland over church built on Holocaust survivor’s land
 Muslim-Catholic committee meets at Vatican to promote document signed by Pope, grand imam

Released Wednesday, Sep. 11

 Chinese ‘underground’ Catholic churches blocked off
 Pope, in general audience, reflects on journey to Africa
 Prominent Connecticut priest credibly accused of child sexual abuse, diocese says
 Vatican authorizes investigation after Minnesota bishop accused of pressuring man to recant molestation allegation
 Priests in Australian state to face up to 3 years in jail if they fail to report abuse revealed in Confession
 In concession to Cardinal Ranjith, Sri Lanka announces independent commission on Easter attacks
 Victory for Constantinople in dispute over Western Europe’s Russian Orthodox
 Vatican diplomat calls for ‘free and fair elections’ in Nicaragua
 Santa Fe archbishop calls for ‘hope and healing among the peoples’
 Cardinal O’Malley weighs in on human consequences of immigration policies
 2 Catholic schools, 1 parish destroyed in Bahamas hurricane
 South African Jesuits call on political leaders to apologize for xenophobic remarks
 Report: German bishops rejected Pope Francis-style ‘priority of evangelization’ synodal assembly
 Google doodle honors late German-Pakistani nun who served lepers
 Pope thanks Our Lady upon return to Rome from apostolic journey
 ‘We must obey international institutions,’ Pope says during in-flight press conference
 Leading Vatican diplomat speaks out against nuclear testing
 Don’t sacrifice human lives on the ‘altar of speculation and profit alone,’ Pope tells Mauritius’ leaders

Released Tuesday, Sep. 10

 Report: Deacons ‘celebrating Mass’ in Amazon, Pope is aware
 Prosecution looms in Dutch involuntary-euthanasia case
 Myanmar military drops case against Baptist leader who discussed persecution with President Trump
 West Virginia’s attorney general urges court to advance lawsuit against diocese
 Buffalo auxiliary bishop denies threat to bishop’s former secretary over abuse allegation
 2 priests and a catechist arrested in Jharkand for ‘forced conversions’
 Christianity is not colonialism, Philippine prelate tells nation’s president
 Oman’s 4th parish church is dedicated
 Missouri diocese includes 2 bishops on list of abusers with ‘substantiated’ allegations
 Seattle’s new archbishop won’t live in mansion
 Zambian, South African bishops deplore xenophobic attacks
 Immigration organization founded by US bishops sues Trump administration over asylum policy
 Pope challenges Mauritius’ faithful to foster missionary momentum
 ‘Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary joy,’ Pope says to priests and religious
 Pope prays for workers at stone quarry
 ‘Poverty is not inevitable!’: Pope visits humanitarian project founded by former student
 Jesus entrusts you with a mission, Pope emphasizes at youth vigil
 Be careful of ‘young, rigid priests,’ Pope tells Madagascar’s bishops

Released Monday, Sep. 9

 India: priests and catechists arrested for ‘proselytism’
 Eritrea govt’s latest seizures —schools run by religious bodies
 Cardinal Dolan weighing intervention in Buffalo amid calls for bishop’s removal
 John Finnis rips logic of appeals court on Cardinal Pell’s conviction
 Cameroon diocese is hard hit by violence triggered by country’s political crisis
 1 million attend papal Mass in Madagascar
 Ex-priest arrested for making false statements to FBI
 Court rejects Ohio professor’s objection to required use of transgender pronouns
 EU envoy’s threat of trade sanctions played crucial role in Asia Bibi’s freedom
 Mexican bishops call for recognition of parental rights in education
 Memphis’ 1st bishop replaced on mural after child sexual abuse accusations
 Buffalo bishop’s secretary alleges he was ‘silenced’ on sexual assault claim
 Philippine president will not celebrate 500th anniversary of nation’s evangelization
 Christians caught up in propaganda war between Syrian government and rebels, bishop warns
 3 delegate presidents appointed for Amazon synod
 Be ‘consumed in the fire which is Jesus’: Pope praises vocation of contemplative religious
 Pope pays tribute to Madagascar’s values, criticizes corruption, deforestation
 ‘Love your enemies’: Pope calls for reconciliation in Mozambique
 Pope encourages care for HIV patients

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